Ahmedabad

RailYatri.in, a technology start-up focused on train travellers, has claimed to launch India’s first Global Positioning System (GPS) train tracking platform, ‘RailRadar GPS’, to track and display the real time movement of nation-wide trains on a Google map, Mr. Manish Rathi, CEO and co-founder of the company informed today.

With this, the train travel app has taken a concrete step towards the longstanding train tracking challenge using smart location technology implementation like never before. RailYatri’s ‘RailRadar GPS’ enables users to track running trains on a Google map along with its on-time/delay status, he said.

This is the first ever deployment of a true crowd-sourced location tracking. The previous attempts by the government to install GPS on trains as part of the SIMRAN project failed due to the high project costs. Real time train tracking continued to be a challenge despite crores spent on the pilot project which was scrapped after being launched on about 40 premium trains, Mr. Rathi said.

‘RailRadar GPS’ uses location generated by a passenger’s smartphone, the solution requires zero capital expenditure in terms of GPS hardware costs. ‘RailRadar GPS’ determines the train location by analysing the pattern of locations transmitted by the smartphone travellers sitting on the train, similar to how Google Maps determines the traffic on the road when you are using any road transport like a car or a bus.

With hundreds of smartphones on each train nowadays, RailRadar GPS has been designed to scale up to track every train in the country on a 24×7 basis, though for now the company has published around 100+ trains in the pilot phase, he said.

To use RailRadar GPS, travelers simply have to visit www.railyatri.in and track the train on the map. It shows trains running tracking data neatly displayed on a Google Map. The map also indicates the on-current time status of trains. Trains running on time have Green indicators, while those running late are marked red. On the top right, there’s a display that shows the number of trains tracked at that point of time, and percentage of trains that are on schedule and delayed.Users can click the train name from the map or search by train number and RailRadar GPS shows the exact location of the train in terms of latitude and longitude.

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